Building a culture of care in America

This is all to say, the “abortion debate” isn’t worth a stitch if it doesn’t acknowledge the whole complex weaving of a caregiver’s life. And if we zoom out even the smallest bit, we realize how tragically we are failing caregivers in this country.

First, some grounding facts: 1 out of 5 pregnancies ends in abortion and 1 out of 4 women has had an abortion by the time she is 45. The majority of those who seek out abortions are experiencing poverty and were using a form of contraception in the month that they got pregnant. Two-thirds of them have already given birth before. Over half of aborti... See more

I hunger so deeply for us to shift from a focus on control to a focus on care in this country. If only we could stop trying to convince one another about some ideological stance, and start looking at caregivers’ real lives and building systems, services, products and policies that actually make them better. Or just decent. Even that would be a step... See more